The National Archives and Records Administration

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The National Archives and Records Administration

• Knowledge-Based, Grid-Enabled, Persistent
  Archives Applied Research Development Program
• http//www.nara.gov/era
• A Collection-Level Approach
• Robert Chadduck
• Office of Human Resources Information Services
• voicecom301-713-7330x294
• robert.chadduck_at_nara.gov

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Foundation for the National Archives Applied
Research Program

• The mission of the National Archives and Records
  Administration is to ensure, for the Citizen and
  the Public Servant, for the President and the
  Congress and the Courts, ready access to
  essential evidence.
• Our Nations security, commerce, education, and
  well-being depend increasingly on our information
  infrastructure. It is thus critical to ensure the
  survivability of that infrastructure....
  Survivability includes long term preservation of
  information a document of historical importance
  should be preserved, even as underlying storage
  technologies and information representation
  evolve.... Presidents Information Technology
  Advisory Committee,
• 1999
• Most Federal agencies now perform many key
  activities ... that could not be accomplished
  with paper systems.... Agencies such as the
  Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Social Security
  Administration (SSA), Bureau of the Census, and
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  would literally collapse without information
  technology. Office of Technology Assessment,
  1993

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Empirical Test Collections Two Years Ago

• E-mail postings - 1 million records
• TIGER/Line 1992 (Bureau of the Census)
• 104th Congress
• Vote Archive Demo 1997 (VAD)
• Electronic Access Project (EAP)
• Combat Area Casualties Current File (CACCF)
• Patent Data (USPTO) - 2 million patents
• Image collection (AMICO)
• JITC collection

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Empirical Test Collections Last Year

• U.S. Senate Legislative Activities Records
  Collection
• F.D.R. Presidential Library Website Collection
• O.S.D. Gulfwar Gulf-link Website Collection
• Geospatial Records Collections
• Digital Raster Graphics, Digital Line Graphs,
  Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles, Digital Elevation
  Models
• Vietnam War Herbicide Records Collection
• Vietnam War SORTIA/PSYOPSA/MGRS Records
  Collection
• UC Berkeley Digital Library Project
  Heterogeneous Object
  Collection

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Electronic Records Collections Illustrative of
NARA Responsibilities

• Email of the Executive Office of the President
• Digital Official Military Personnel Files (DOD)
  
• Scanned Images of Declassified Records
  (Intelligence Community)
• Remote Sensed Intelligence Imagery (NRO)
• Digital Audio-Video Recordings of the U.S.
  Senate
• Investigatory Files of the Offices of
  Independent Counsels
• Electronic Case Files of the U.S. Courts
• Department of State Diplomatic Cables
• Automated Disaster Assistance Management System
  (FEMA)
• Hazardous Waste Site Database (EPA)
• Virtual Reality Models Patent Applications and
  Trademark Registrations (USPTO)